If committing atomic pages is failed when doing f2fs_do_sync_file(), we can get commited pages but atomic_file being still set like:
- inmem: 0, atomic IO: 4 (Max. 10), volatile IO: 0 (Max. 0) If GC selects this block, we can get an infinite loop like this: f2fs_submit_page_bio: dev = (253,7), ino = 2, page_index = 0x2359a8, oldaddr = 0x2359a8, newaddr = 0x2359a8, rw = READ(), type = COLD_DATA f2fs_submit_read_bio: dev = (253,7)/(253,7), rw = READ(), DATA, sector = 18533696, size = 4096 f2fs_get_victim: dev = (253,7), type = No TYPE, policy = (Foreground GC, LFS-mode, Greedy), victim = 4355, cost = 1, ofs_unit = 1, pre_victim_secno = 4355, prefree = 0, free = 234 f2fs_iget: dev = (253,7), ino = 6247, pino = 5845, i_mode = 0x81b0, i_size = 319488, i_nlink = 1, i_blocks = 624, i_advise = 0x2c f2fs_submit_page_bio: dev = (253,7), ino = 2, page_index = 0x2359a8, oldaddr = 0x2359a8, newaddr = 0x2359a8, rw = READ(), type = COLD_DATA f2fs_submit_read_bio: dev = (253,7)/(253,7), rw = READ(), DATA, sector = 18533696, size = 4096 f2fs_get_victim: dev = (253,7), type = No TYPE, policy = (Foreground GC, LFS-mode, Greedy), victim = 4355, cost = 1, ofs_unit = 1, pre_victim_secno = 4355, prefree = 0, free = 234 f2fs_iget: dev = (253,7), ino = 6247, pino = 5845, i_mode = 0x81b0, i_size = 319488, i_nlink = 1, i_blocks = 624, i_advise = 0x2c In that moment, we can observe: [Before] Try to move 5084219 blocks (BG: 384508) - data blocks : 4962373 (274483) - node blocks : 121846 (110025) Skipped : atomic write 4534686 (10) [After] Try to move 5088973 blocks (BG: 384508) - data blocks : 4967127 (274483) - node blocks : 121846 (110025) Skipped : atomic write 4539440 (10) Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaeg...@kernel.org> --- fs/f2fs/file.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/f2fs/file.c b/fs/f2fs/file.c index 7ae2f3bd8c2f..68b6da734e5f 100644 --- a/fs/f2fs/file.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/file.c @@ -1997,11 +1997,11 @@ static int f2fs_ioc_commit_atomic_write(struct file *filp) goto err_out; ret = f2fs_do_sync_file(filp, 0, LLONG_MAX, 0, true); - if (!ret) { - clear_inode_flag(inode, FI_ATOMIC_FILE); - F2FS_I(inode)->i_gc_failures[GC_FAILURE_ATOMIC] = 0; - stat_dec_atomic_write(inode); - } + + /* doesn't need to check error */ + clear_inode_flag(inode, FI_ATOMIC_FILE); + F2FS_I(inode)->i_gc_failures[GC_FAILURE_ATOMIC] = 0; + stat_dec_atomic_write(inode); } else { ret = f2fs_do_sync_file(filp, 0, LLONG_MAX, 1, false); } -- 2.19.0.605.g01d371f741-goog _______________________________________________ Linux-f2fs-devel mailing list Linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-f2fs-devel